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Biography-Eric K. Gupta-College of Pharmacy
Eric K. Gupta - Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Adminstration
Eric K Gupta - Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice

Degree

Year
obtained

Institution

Pharm.D.

2000

University of the Pacific

Residency

Year

Institution

Cardiovascular Research Fellow

2001-2003

University of the Pacific/
VA San Diego Healthcare System

General Practice Resident

2000-2001

VA San Diego Healthcare System

Description of Academic/Research Interests:
The focus of my academic responsibilities involves dyslipidemia and coronary artery disease among other topics. My research activities are focused in the area of dyslipidemia with an emphasis in work on the metabolic syndrome and clinical outcomes.


Practice site:
Orange County Heart Institute and Research Center
Saint Joseph Medical Plaza
1140 West La Veta Ave., Suite 640
Orange, CA 92868

Rotation description:
The Ambulatory Care Clerkship at the Orange County Heart Institute and Research Center is designed to provide various clinical experiences necessary to prepare students to become entry level practitioners with a cardiology emphasis. The students will be involved in direct patient care activities in a primary care lipid clinic and coumadin clinic, and will have opportunities to work with other health care professionals. The students are expected to serve as an integral member of the multidisciplinary health care team to assess patients and provide appropriate drug therapy. Students are required to present a journal club, a drug information project, as well as a one-hour disease state presentation which is given to the rest of the staff, faculty, and students at the clinic.

Selected Publications

Ito MK, Aldridge VE, Howard JJ, Gupta EK, Johns ST, and Wong JK. Encapsulation of pravastatin tablets produces greater low-density lipoprotein cholesterol lowering in patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection dyslipidemia taking protease inhibitors. J Am Coll Cardiol 2004;5:446A. Abstract.

Gupta EK and Ito MK. Ezetimibe: The first in a novel class of selective cholesterol-absorption inhibitors. Heart Dis 2002;4:399-409. Review.

Gupta EK and Ito MK. Difference in the correlation of non-HDL-c and LDL-c with apolipoprotein B in patients receiving pravastatin monotherapy or pravastatin plus cholestyramine. Pharmacotherapy 2002;22:1333. Abstract.

Gupta EK and Ito MK. Lovastatin and extended-release niacin combination product: the first drug combination for the management of hyperlipidemia. Heart Dis. 2002;4:124-137. Review

Contact Information

Office address: 309 E. Second St.
Pomona, CA 91766
Main phone: (909) 469-5500
Fax: (909) 469-5539
E-mail: egupta@westernu.edu


Last Updated:06/08/2008